"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Eiron wrote:
When I was a nipper, my brother had an MGA.
On Sunday morning, he and Dad used to "balance the carbs"
with a pair of rubber tubes, one in each ear. Then a spot
of oil in each dashpot, and off they went.

How fortunate he didn't have an XKE, as then he would have had to buy
the correct tool for the job.

If you've got a decent ear, you can balance carbs like that just as
accurately as by using a flow meter. But using one tube to one ear, and
moving it carb to carb.

However, SU carbs don't need tweaking every Sunday. If they do, they are
faulty.

Necessary or not, that was their routine,
before they went out together on a Sunday morning.

Iain